books.google.com - The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent...https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Great_Lakes_Water_Wars.html?id=VzMeZHaLP_gC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Great Lakes Water Wars

The Great Lakes Water Wars

The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? áPeter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.

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Review: The Great Lakes Water Wars

User Review - Gary Street - Goodreads

Excellent and sobering discussion. Anyone that is concerned about the future of the Great Lakes, and their enormous store of fresh water (over 20% of the world's fresh water) must read this book.Read full review

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User Review - Eric B. Kennedy - Goodreads

Really great introduction to some of the issues and policy surrounding the Great Lakes region of North America. While it's a non-fiction account of history and politics, it very approachable and ...Read full review

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Page v - That land yields a cultural harvest is a fact long known, but lately often forgotten. . . . this much is crystal-clear : our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings. Perhaps such a shift of values can be achieved by reappraising things unnatural, tame and confined in terms of things...

Page v - But wherever the truth may lie, this much is crystalclear: our bigger-and-better society is now like a hypochondriac, so obsessed with its own economic health as to have lost the capacity to remain healthy. The whole world is so greedy for more bathtubs that it has lost the stability necessary to build them, or even to turn off the tap. Nothing could be more salutary at this stage than a little healthy contempt for a plethora of material blessings.

Page 10 - Alaska — the twenty million people in the Colorado Basin will probably find themselves facing chronic shortages, if not some kind of catastrophe, before any of these grandiose schemes is built."29 Outside the American Southwest, there is very little sympathy for the unsustainable water problems faced by that region.